Volcano on an island (Stromboli )
From Italian vulcano , from Latin Vulcānus ( “ Vulcan , the Roman god of fire and metalworking” ) . Doublet of bolcane and Vulcan .
volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos )
A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon , periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
Iceland's volcanoes are among the most active on Earth.
A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
mountain containing a magma chamber
Adyghe: къэбэкъао ( qɛbɛqawo )
Afrikaans: vulkaan
Ainu: ウフイ・ヌプリ ( uhuy nupuri )
Albanian: vullkan (sq) m
Amharic: እሳተ ጎመራ ( ʾəsatä gomära )
Arabic: بُرْكَان (ar) m ( burkān ) , جَبَلُ النَّار m ( jabalu n-nār )
Gulf Arabic: بُرْكان m ( burkān )
Hijazi Arabic: بُرْكان m ( burkān )
Aragonese: bolcán m
Armenian: հրաբուխ (hy) ( hrabux )
Assamese: আগ্নেয়গিৰি ( agnegiri )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܘܼܠܩܵܢܵܐ m ( bulqānā )
Asturian: volcán (ast) m
Azerbaijani: vulkan (az) , yanardağ (az)
Basque: sumendi
Belarusian: вулка́н (be) m ( vulkán )
Bengali: আগ্নেয়গিরি (bn) ( agneẏgiri )
Bikol Central: bulkan (bcl)
Bislama: volkeno
Breton: menez-tan m
Bulgarian: вулка́н (bg) m ( vulkán )
Burmese: မီးတောင် (my) ( mi:taung )
Catalan: volcà (ca) m
Cebuano: bolkan
Central Melanau: gunuong papui
Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎸ ᎣᏓᎸ ( atsilv odalv )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 火山 ( fo2 saan1 )
Dungan: хуәсан ( huəsan )
Eastern Min: 火山 ( huōi-săng )
Hakka: 火山 ( fó-sân )
Hokkien: 火山 ( hé-soaⁿ )
Mandarin: 火山 (zh) ( huǒshān )
Northern Min: 火山 ( hǒ-súing )
Wu: 火山 ( 5 hu-se)
Chuvash: вулкан ( vulk̬an )
Cornish: loskvenydh m , menydh tan m
Corsican: volcanu m , vulcanu m
Cree: ᐊᐧᒋᑳᐸᐦᑭᑌᐠ ( aycikaapahkitek )
Crimean Tatar: yanardağ
Czech: sopka (cs) f , vulkán (cs) m
Danish: vulkan (da) c
Dupaningan Agta: bulkan
Dutch: vulkaan (nl) m , vuurberg m
Emilian: vulcan m ( Bolognese )
Esperanto: vulkano (eo)
Estonian: vulkaan (et) , tulemägi
Farefare: bug-zoore , bugzoore , vulkan
Faroese: gosfjall (fo) n
Finnish: tulivuori (fi)
French: volcan (fr) m
Friulian: vulcan m
Galician: volcán (gl) m
Georgian: ვულკანი ( vulḳani )
German: Vulkan (de) m , ( poetic ) Feuerberg (de) m , feuerspeiender Berg m
Central Franconian: Vulkahn
Greek: ηφαίστειο (el) n ( ifaísteio )
Greenlandic: innermik anitsisartoq
Guaraní: yvyty rata , yvyrata
Gujarati: જ્વાલામુખી m ( jvālāmukhī )
Haitian Creole: vòlkan
Hawaiian: lua pele , pele
Hebrew: הַר גַעַשׁ (he) m ( har ga'ash ) , ווּלְקָן (he) m ( vulkán )
Hindi: ज्वालामुखी (hi) m ( jvālāmukhī )
Hungarian: vulkán (hu) , tűzhányó (hu)
Icelandic: eldfjall (is) n , eldstöð (is) f
Ido: volkano (io)
Indonesian: gunung berapi (id) , gunung api (id)
Interlingua: vulcano
Irish: bolcán (ga) m
Italian: vulcano (it) m
Japanese: 火山 (ja) ( かざん, kazan )
Javanese: gunung geni , redi latu
Kabardian: къэбэкъауэ ( qɛbɛqawɛ )
Kannada: ಜ್ವಾಲಾಮುಖಿ (kn) ( jvālāmukhi ) , ಅಗ್ನಿಪರ್ವತ (kn) ( agniparvata ) , ಉರಿಬೆಟ್ಟ (kn) ( uribeṭṭa )
Kashubian: wùlkan m
Kazakh: жанартау (kk) ( janartau )
Khmer: ភ្នំភ្លើង ( phnum phləəng )
Korean: 화산(火山) (ko) ( hwasan )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: volkan (ku) m
Kyrgyz: жанар тоо ( janar too ) , вулкан (ky) ( vulkan )
Lakota: ȟeíle
Lao: ພູໄຟ (lo) ( phū fai ) , ພູເຂົາໄຟ ( phū khao fai )
Latin: mons ignifer m , mons ignivomus m , mons Vulcanius m , mons vulcanius m
Latvian: vulkāns m
Ligurian: vurcan m ( Monégasque )
Lingala: ngómbá-mɔ̌tɔ , epelelo
Lithuanian: ugnikalnis (lt) m
Low German: Vulkan m
Luxembourgish: Vulkan m
Macedonian: вулкан m ( vulkan )
Malagasy: volokano , afotroa (mg)
Malay: gunung berapi (ms)
Malayalam: അഗ്നിപർവ്വതം (ml) ( agnipaṟvvataṁ )
Maltese: vulkan m
Manx: volcaan m , slieau loshtee m
Maori: puia , ahi tipua
Marathi: ज्वालामुखी ( jvālāmukhī )
Mezquital Otomi: fu̱nit’o̱ho̱
Mingrelian: ვულკანი ( vulḳani )
Mirandese: bulcon m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: галт уул (mn) ( galt uul )
Nahuatl: tletepētl
Nauruan: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: bighą́ąʼdi kǫʼ dah hadinaad
Neapolitan: vurcano m
Nepali: ज्वालामुखी (ne) ( jwālāmukhī )
Newar: गुँजला ( gũjalā )
Ngazidja Comorian: dzaha class 5 /6
Norman: montangne dé feu f , montangne brûlante f
Northern Sami: dollavárri , vulkána
Norwegian: vulkan (no) m
Occitan: volcan (oc) m
Odia: ଜ୍ୱାଳାମୁଖୀ (or) ( jwāḷāmukhi )
Papiamentu: volkan
Pashto: آتشفشان m ( ātešfešãn ) , اورشيندی ( orší́nday )
Persian: آتشفشان (fa) ( âtaš-fešân )
Piedmontese: vulcan m
Polish: wulkan (pl) m
Portuguese: vulcão (pt) m
Punjabi: ਜੁਆਲਾਮੁਖੀ ( juālāmukhī ) , ਅੱਗਪਹਾੜ ( aggaphāṛ )
Purepecha: please add this translation if you can
Quechua: ariq
Romanian: vulcan (ro) m
Romansch: vulcan m
Russian: вулка́н (ru) m ( vulkán )
Rwanda-Rundi:
Kinyarwanda: ikirunga class 7 /8
Samoan: mauga mū
Samogitian: please add this translation if you can
Sanskrit: अग्निपर्वत (sa) m ( agniparvata )
Sardinian: vulcanu m , burcanu m
Scottish Gaelic: beinn-theine f , bholcàno m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ву̀лка̄н m
Roman: vùlkān (sh) m
Shona: chikwatamabwe class 7
Sicilian: vurcanu (scn) m , vulcanu (scn) m
Sinhalese: ගිනි කඳු ( gini kaⁿdu )
Skolt Sami: tolltuõddâr
Slovak: sopka f , vulkán m
Slovene: ognjenik (sl) m , vulkan (sl) m
Somali: folkaano f
Spanish: volcán (es) m
Swahili: volkano (sw) class 9 /10 , volkeno class 9 /10 , zaha
Swedish: vulkan (sv) c
Tagalog: bulkan (tl)
Tahitian: mouʻa auahi
Tajik: вулқон ( vulqon ) , вулкан ( vulkan ) , оташфишон ( otašfišon ) , кӯҳи оташфишон ( küh-i otašfišon )
Tamil: எரிமலை (ta) ( erimalai )
Telugu: అగ్నిపర్వతము (te) ( agniparvatamu ) , జ్వాలాముఖి (te) ( jvālāmukhi )
Thai: ภูเขาไฟ (th) ( puu-kǎo-fai )
Tibetan: མེ་རི ( me ri )
Tok Pisin: maunten paia
Tongan: lofia
Tulu: ಜ್ವಾಲಾಮುಖಿ ( jvālāmukhi )
Turkish: yanardağ (tr) , volkan (tr)
Turkmen: wulkan
Tuvan: вулкан ( vulkan ) , оттуг даг ( ottug dag )
Udmurt: тылгурезь ( tylgureź ) , вулкан ( vulkan )
Ukrainian: вулка́н (uk) m ( vulkán )
Urdu: آتشفشاں ( ātiś-fiśān )
Uyghur: يانار تاغ (ug) ( yanar tagh ) , ۋولقان ( wolqan )
Uzbek: vulkan (uz) , vulqon (uz)
Venetan: volcan
Vietnamese: núi lửa (vi) , hoả diệm sơn (vi) , hoả diễm sơn
Volapük: volkan (vo) , ( older term, obsolete ) filabel
Võro: tulõmägi
Vurës: vōr
Waray-Waray: bulkan
Welsh: llosgfynydd m
West Coast Bajau: belud ngapi
West Flemish: (please verify ) vulkoan
West Frisian: fulkaan c
Yakut: вулкан ( vulkan )
Yiddish: וווּלקאַן m ( vulkan )
Zulu: intabamlilo class 9 /10
volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes , present participle volcanoing , simple past and past participle volcanoed )
to erupt ; to burst forth
1951 , Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child :She shrank back, the words volcanoed , words that stabbed again, and yet again
2012 , George Pratt, Peter Lambrou, John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness :Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.